Hi All, This news letter is confined to my entire collection of google tutorials and how jaws and supernova work on the web. I hope you find at least some of what I have written up useful. Read on and enjoy. Feel free to ask more questions about anything you have read hear and in any of the other items recently posted on the list. Remember if you need a tutorial written up on something let us know here and some of us will try and help. Tutorial 1 Hi All, After receiving a few requests for it I have finally pinned myself down to write up some useful I hope instructions for performing various types of searches within the Google search engine. I plan on covering this topic in more than just one tutorial so here it is the first one. Most people will either use JAWS, Supernova or Hal and if your programs which I have just mentioned are up n the years say acquired within the last 4 years or so then using Google will be no problem. First of all lets look at how our screen readers/magnification software interacts with the Google search engine and indeed you can apply what I am going to say here to many or all web pages which contain forms. When you first load up Google it will contain advertisements, various other options and preferences for you to use or take a look at but mainly you find that Google is a text based search engine which is fine for us. What we are going to look at in this lesson is the fact that Google has "one edit field" for us to place those important search words into and hope that it comes back with loads of useful results. Google will do this provided you take a little time to gain a little knowledge about how it works and how best to use it. (Using JAWS and Supernova within Google) When we enter Google basically the first thing we need to look for is the search box in Google where we type in our search words. With jaws you can first go to the top of the Google webpage using keys: "control plus home" on your keyboard then arrow down the page till you come to the search edit box which jaws will announce and you then press the "enter key" which activates the jaws forms mode, a great feature in the jaws program itself. There is a dedicated set of keystrokes for jumping directly into a Google form field such as the search box and this again applies to all form fields on any webpage. The keystrokes for this are: jaws5 and versions of jaws 4 "control, shift and tab key". If its jaws6 versions use key "letter E" and it will place you in the search field ready for you to activate forms mode with the enter key. You can use the above mentioned technique on any webpage which has form fields. Note: if there are more than one edit box on a webpage you only need to press and activate the jaws forms mode on the first edit or list box and any more edit or list boxes, checkboxes etc that come after on that page you can simply tab key to them and use them. Once you go to the next or continue button on a webpage and move off the current webpage to a new page will jaws forms mode turn off and you would have to activate it again if you need to on the next page if there are forms to be filled in. I have talked so far about jaws on the pages with forms and I will say here that supernova acts much the same as jaws in this regard jaws calls this function "forms mode" while supernova calls it "interactive mode". If any of the I.T Trainers on the list can post a more detailed account of how supernova works on a webpage with forms then please do. (Supernova on the web) Here I am going to switche over to Supernova for a moment and talk about it and how it works on the web. Yes, there are a lot of differences between using the jaws keyboard strokes and the supernova ones. Please follow the list of keystrokes I have sent to the list which are for supernova exclusively. Take your time reading them and get a good understanding of them. That?s all I am going to say about how the afore mentioned screen readers behave on a page. Please ask questions if you need further information and help. (Google Web Search Basics) Whenever you search for more than one keyword at a time, a search engine has a default strategy for handling and combining those keywords. Can those words appear individually anywhere in a page, or do they have to be right next to each other? Will the engine search for both keywords or for either keyword? Google defaults to searching for occurrences of your specified keywords anywhere in the page, whether side-by-side or scattered throughout. To return results of pages containing specifically ordered words, enclose them in quotes, turning your keyword search into a phrase search , to use Google's terminology. Now let me give you an idea of a search. This is called a phrase search and if you study it carefully you will see why. [Begin Sample] to be or not to be Above I have typed in some words, the phrase: to be or not to be. Google sees all those words as just being separate words and will return results where any or all of these words are scattered all over the place. Now that?s fine if that is what you want but remember this is a phrase search and I am studying for say an important English exam In order for those words to appear together as a combined phrase enclose them within quotation marks using keys "shift plus number 2" See the following sample of what I mean. So we are in the Google search box and here is what you should have inserted: "To be or not to be" (Below are the list of results I got from Google following the above technique) Book results for "To be or not to be" To Be or Not to Be - by William V. Rauscher - 142 pages Shakespeare - To be, or not to be: that is the question William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1). To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings ... www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha8.htm - 4k - 13 Aug 2005 - Cached - Similar pages To BE or Not to BE, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ... 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Two levels available. www.funbrain.com/verb/ - 5k - Cached - Similar pages Amazon.com: To Be or Not to Be (1942) : Video To Be or Not to Be, Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, ... www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ tg/detail/-/630170648X?v=glance - 61k - Cached - Similar pages Block quote start Amazon.com: To Be or Not to Be (1983) : Video To Be or Not to Be, Alan Johnson, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, José Ferrer, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner, ... www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ tg/detail/-/6301798643?v=glance - 58k - Cached - Similar pages Block quote end To Be Or Not To Be Scene-indexed HTML of the plays. Options for viewing via wireless devices. www.tobeornottobe.com/ - 2k - Cached - Similar pages Poetry - William Shakespeare - To be or not to be - that is the ... Poetry - William Shakespeare - To be or not to be - that is the question. www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/william-shakespeare-3.html - 5k - 13 Aug 2005 - Cached - Similar pages (End of first page of results) [End of sample] Google will return matches only where those words appear together. Therefore I am more likely in my list of results to get exactly what I want from the search and therefore I will spend less time and frustration trying to find what I want. Now try the above sample or else find a line of text yourself and see how it works for you. Remember to use quotation marks each side of the search. I will end for now on this subject so any questions relating to this topic or anything else please write in to the list. Regards, Paul. ====================================================================<<< Whatever you Wanadoo, click below: http://ads.smartgroups.com/adclick/CID=000000b7c79a99a500000000 ====================================================================>>> -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/vip_students To leave the Group, email: vip_students-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Report abuse http://www.smartgroups.com/text/abusereport.cfm?gid%3D3134514&mid%3D35 Tutorial 2 Hi All, We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson. Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what is called its Boolean default . Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for any keywords). Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what it means exactly. Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your query words. For example, if you search for: snowblower Honda "Green Bay" Google will search for all the words. If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following example. snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay" Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my selection or indeed all of the words. Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work correctly. Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words of your own choosing and read over the above carefully as it might not make much sense at first but it will come to you as you go along. As always, just write into the list asking any further questions you have relation to this topic of "basic Boolean searching". Paul. Paul Traynor, Technical Support Staff, NCBI, 45 Whitworth Road, Dromcondra, Dublin 9. Tel: 1850 923 060 EM: paul.traynor@xxxxxxx ====================================================================<<< Whatever you Wanadoo, click below: http://ads.smartgroups.com/adclick/CID=000000b7c79a99a500000000 ====================================================================>>> -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/vip_students To leave the Group, email: vip_students-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Report abuse http://www.smartgroups.com/text/abusereport.cfm?gid%3D3134514&mid%3D96 Tutorial 3 Hi All, We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson. Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what is called its Boolean default . Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for any keywords). Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what it means exactly. Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your query words. For example, if you search for: snowblower Honda "Green Bay" Google will search for all the words. If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following example. snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay" Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my selection or indeed all of the words. Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work correctly. Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words of your own choosing and read over the above carefully as it might not make much sense at first but it will come to you as you go along. As always, just write into the list asking any further questions you have relation to this topic of "basic Boolean searching". Paul. Paul Traynor, Technical Support Staff, NCBI, 45 Whitworth Road, Dromcondra, Dublin 9. Tel: 1850 923 060 EM: paul.traynor@xxxxxxx ====================================================================<<< Whatever you Wanadoo, click below: http://ads.smartgroups.com/adclick/CID=000000b7c79a99a500000000 ====================================================================>>> -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/vip_students To leave the Group, email: vip_students-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Report abuse http://www.smartgroups.com/text/abusereport.cfm?gid%3D3134514&mid%3D96 Tutorial 4 Hi All, We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson. Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what is called its Boolean default . Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for any keywords). Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what it means exactly. Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your query words. For example, if you search for: snowblower Honda "Green Bay" Google will search for all the words. If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following example. snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay" Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my selection or indeed all of the words. Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work correctly. Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words of your own choosing and read over the above carefully as it might not make much sense at first but it will come to you as you go along. As always, just write into the list asking any further questions you have relation to this topic of "basic Boolean searching". Paul. Paul Traynor, Technical Support Staff, NCBI, 45 Whitworth Road, Dromcondra, Dublin 9. Tel: 1850 923 060 EM: paul.traynor@xxxxxxx ====================================================================<<< Whatever you Wanadoo, click below: http://ads.smartgroups.com/adclick/CID=000000b7c79a99a500000000 ====================================================================>>> -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/vip_students To leave the Group, email: vip_students-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Report abuse http://www.smartgroups.com/text/abusereport.cfm?gid%3D3134514&mid%3D96 Tutorial 5 Tutorial 6 Hi All, We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson. Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what is called its Boolean default . Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for any keywords). Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what it means exactly. Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your query words. For example, if you search for: snowblower Honda "Green Bay" Google will search for all the words. If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following example. snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay" Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my selection or indeed all of the words. Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work correctly. Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words of your own choosing and read over carefully as it might not make much sense at first but it will come to you as you go along. Bye for now, Paul.